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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University receives grant

ConnecticutHumanities
announced in a release that two Connecticut organizations will share nearly $47,000 in
grant money to support humanities-based programming.

"One grant
will fund a series of important discussions statewide
about diversity and discrimination. The other will subsidize a unique
exhibit of Irish artwork," the release said.

"This exhibition of Irish artwork, which the museum says is the most comprehensive ever to be displayed in the United States, features the only known painting of The Great Famine. The exhibit will explore the enormous impact of the famine on everyday life in Ireland during the 19th Century," the release said.

The free exhibit will be on display at the museum in Hamden from January 20 to April 17, 2016, the release said..

Further, "the largest grant was awarded to Hartford’s
Amistad Center, which is partnering with the
James Baldwin Project
to host an ambitious series of film screenings, performances and
discussions in several
communities across Connecticut," the release said.

"The $30,000 Connecticut Humanities
grant will support 'Conversations with Jimmy,”'a project which uses a
film about the author’s life as a starting point to begin engaging
discussions about diversity, discrimination and brotherhood."

The Amistad Center will hold a series of “Conversations with Jimmy”
programs throughout the state through June 2016, the release said.

Also in the release:

Connecticut
Humanities, a nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the
Humanities, funds, creates and collaborates on hundreds of cultural
programs across Connecticut
each year. It administers a competitive grant pool made possible by the
Connecticut General Assembly. Visit
http://www.cthumanities.org.